PRESENTATION

BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR is an orchestra made of some 15 analogue function generators for four hands played by polish/swiss/french duet Emma Souharce and Daniel Maszkowicz.

With its oscilloscopes, sinusoidals, and frequency sweeps, Biblioteq Mdulair is a sound installation producing all kind of waveforms, exploring vibrations, tickeling resonances, and creating breathing beats. Those primitive electronics machines bring the soundspace down to a magma of waves for a dizzying acoustactile experience.

Bringing the fundamental acoustic waveform to the front stage so it can be experienced by the body and mind, each performance has a storyline with a scenario that allows the two artists to freely improvise from one chapter to another. The public that enters this intense and fascinating laboratory for sensorial experimentations is brought down to various atmospheres from a soft stroll to an earthquake.

SYNKIE is an analogue ecosystem for video manipulation created by [ a n y m a ]. This modular video synthesiser stands as the perfect alter-ego of legendary Moog and works as a true analogue processor for the moving image. The three creators/experimenters will distributes their video waves on dozens of CTR televisions for creating a total audiovisual symbiosis.

« Like a Moog or Doepfer synth, the Synkie was developed with modularity in mind. So far, [ a n y m a ] has built modules to split and combine the sync and video signals, and modules to invert, add, subtract, mix, filter and amplify those signals. The end result of all this video processing produces an output that can look like a glitched Atari, art installation, and scrambled cable station all at the same time. »
– Brian Benchoff – Hackaday

The Synkie is an open source, modular analog video processor developed by Michael Egger, Flo Kaufmann and Max Egger and has already been on display at Shift Festival in 2010 and Electron, Geneva 2011.

The Synkie is a visual instrument that resembles the venerable Moog synthesizers of the late sixties, but based on todays analog technology and not producing sound but moving images. It takes its roots with works of the late Sixties, early Seventies (by early video artists like Nam June Paik, Bill Etra, Dan Sandin, just to name a few) using methods largely forgotten now through the advent of digital image manipulation.
The Synkie builds on these traditions and transforms them back into the present.
Its dozens of individual modules can be freely patched together in ever changing combinations, allowing the discovery of surprising visual effects.
It permits to apply processes to visuals that were previously known mostly to sound artists, like for example oscillators, filters, modulation and methods like circuit bending. It is an experimentation platform to play around with video - not with the actual content but with the image as an electrical signal.